"The plain fact is that recent college grads arenâ€™t in massive pain. They suffered during the Great Recession like everyone else, but all told, they probably suffered a little less than most other groups."

-- Kevin Drum

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“Icy glares from vampires are far icier than icy glares from people and when the vampire giving you an icy glare is originally from Iceland, you're confronted with the archetypal origin of the term, and you shouldn't be surprised if your core body temperature drops a few degrees.”
“Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.”
“The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.”
“Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than 5 million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning. So that when you look at them and think, "what a lazy, good-for-nothing animal," they are, in fact, working very, very hard.”

Source : "Human Croquet: A Novel".
“there seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two.”
“I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.”
“Space and time are figments of you're imagination, unless the guy you're flying next to won't shut up.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Feb 10, 2012
“Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.”

Source : Robert Thurman (2011). “The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Liberation Through Understanding in the Between”, p.53, Bantam

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